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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Mar  6 06:38, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Corinna Vinschen on 3/6/2007 6:18 AM:
> > I don't know if it's actually worth the effort, but it would be easily
> > supportable in struct stat, given that we have spare room in struct stat
> > of exactly the size of a timestruc_t, afaics.  But, still, does it
> > really make sense?  How long will it take until st_birthtime will go
> > into the standards, if at all?
> 
> I don't know if any standards bodies are talking about st_birthtime.  But
> imagine how useful it might be to use find(1) to find files created in a
> certain time range, regardless of how their ctime has been modified since,
> which is the driving factor behind the gnulib changes.  Since Windows find
> can do it, why can't GNU?

Sure.  Well, since it's not much work anyway, I guess I will add
st_birthtime soon.

> And while I'm wishing, it would be nice to have openat() and friends
> [...]

Adding the ...at functions correctly requires some serious changes in
the path evaluation routine.  Chris is revamping that stuff anyway, but
it's not an easy task.

> [and have I ever mentioned that it would be nice if I could get copyright
> assignment from my employer?]

Sigh, really.


Corinna

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